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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread

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Ovedius said:
Now that you mention it I might just go berserk if there are no MacBook Pro announcements come Monday.
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What if they announce on Monday, but don't ship until late May? Is that enough for most people? Otherwise your options are either a redesign in June or a spec bump on Monday with no redesign.
 
Exile714 said:
What if they announce on Monday, but don't ship until late May? Is that enough for most people? Otherwise your options are either a redesign in June or a spec bump on Monday with no redesign.
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Works for me. I can decide whether to wait or get the Asus im eyeing knowing all information.
 
dadudeness said:
Actually you should go with 'sprich', but never mind - it is indeed a schwere Sprache :)


German store still promises delivery on Monday for the regular 13" devices. BTO is 24-30.
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Haha oh god, that's embarrassing. Obviously it is "sprich". Been in the UK for too long, evidently.
 
J'ai introducé une langue étrangère, et tout le monde devient fou. Quelle horreur hahaha. Je dois récupérer mon français parce que je remarque que je ne suis plus capable de ecrire quelques phrases, sans rechercher si le grammaire est juste.

Mais bon, je digresse. Je pense que nous allons recevoir des nouvelles sur les rMBP's lundi. Vive la france!
 
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The most interesting part is that the current 13" is a year old on Saturday (happy birthday!). We all know it's holding the record of longest update period for a rMBP. The suitable chips are out there. So what gives?

No word of the 13" on Monday practically guarantees an impending redesign. But that still means that either:
  1. The redesign just isn't ready.
  2. They want to release both the 13" and 15" at the same time, and the Core i7-6770HQ (given it's the sole delay reason for the 15") is then delaying both machines.
If the Skull Canyon NUC with the Core i7-6770HQ isn't shipping until May, that's the earliest we could also see a 15", correct? So WWDC in June is a fair guess. But to hold the 13" until then? That's now 457 days! The average is 219 days for the 13".

I honestly think we could get a Skylake speed bump on Monday for the 13" (and maybe rMB). It resets the clock and offers something to people with dying machines who just can't wait anymore and don't care about a new design. The price could also drop a tad bit.

Then the 13" and 15" "New Retina MacBook Pro" hit shelves in June, with a grand unveiling at WWDC. They could then:
  1. Drop the price on the 13" rMBP and keep it as a lower end pro laptop (Oh, hey, like the MBP is now).
  2. Just refresh the 13" again. Think I'm crazy? February 13th, 2013: Apple released a refreshed 13" rMBP just 113 days after the previous update. This time around it'd be 89, but not outside the realm of possibility.
 
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knassar said:
I wanted to respond to that in Dutch, but all i could come up with were grunting noises and guttural sounds :p (just playin!)
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Dutch really sounds like that though hahaha. Especially in my region, where people have a farmers accent and it can be really hard to figure out what they are saying. But luckily I have a rather strong French/American accent that makes me speak alot lighter and les "gghh"-ier

I'll stop the foreign language stuff now :)
 
Desperately in need of replacing my 2010 MBP. When Apple released the latest, redesigned Macbook were there any leaked parts? Holding out hope they will announce a new rMBP on Monday that will ship in a month or two....
 
I'd have to re-watch but I thought only 13" was updated at the event because there weren't chips out yet for 15". Apple did a website announcement for
Dydegu said:
The most interesting part is that the current 13" is a year old on Saturday (happy birthday!). We all know it's holding the record of longest update period for a rMBP. The suitable chips are out there. So what gives?

No word of the 13" on Monday practically guarantees an impending redesign. But that still means that either:
  1. The redesign just isn't ready.
  2. They want to release both the 13" and 15" at the same time, and the Core i7-6770HQ (given it's the sole delay reason for the 15") is then delaying both machines.
If the Skull Canyon NUC with the Core i7-6770HQ isn't shipping until May, that's the earliest we could also see a 15", correct? So WWDC in June is a fair guess. But to hold the 13" until then? That's now 457 days! The average is 219 days for the 13".

I honestly think we could get a Skylake speed bump on Monday for the 13" (and maybe rMB). It resets the clock and offers something to people with dying machines who just can't wait anymore and don't care about a new design. The price could also drop a tad bit.

Then the 13" and 15" "New Retina MacBook Pro" hit shelves in June, with a grand unveiling at WWDC. They could then:
  1. Drop the price on the 13" rMBP and keep it as a lower end pro laptop (Oh, hey, like the MBP is now).
  2. Just refresh the 13" again. Think I'm crazy? February 13th, 2013: Apple released a refreshed 13" rMBP just 113 days after the previous update. This time around it'd be 89, but not outside the realm of possibility.
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I don't see them upgrading to Skylake Monday to then release redesigned models in June. There's no need for another level of Pros.
 
Dydegu said:
The most interesting part is that the current 13" is a year old on Saturday (happy birthday!). We all know it's holding the record of longest update period for a rMBP. The suitable chips are out there. So what gives?

No word of the 13" on Monday practically guarantees an impending redesign. But that still means that either:
  1. The redesign just isn't ready.
  2. They want to release both the 13" and 15" at the same time, and the Core i7-6770HQ (given it's the sole delay reason for the 15") is then delaying both machines.
If the Skull Canyon NUC with the Core i7-6770HQ isn't shipping until May, that's the earliest we could also see a 15", correct? So WWDC in June is a fair guess. But to hold the 13" until then? That's now 457 days! The average is 219 days for the 13".

I honestly think we could get a Skylake speed bump on Monday for the 13" (and maybe rMB). It resets the clock and offers something to people with dying machines who just can't wait anymore and don't care about a new design. The price could also drop a tad bit.

Then the 13" and 15" "New Retina MacBook Pro" hit shelves in June, with a grand unveiling at WWDC. They could then:
  1. Drop the price on the 13" rMBP and keep it as a lower end pro laptop (Oh, hey, like the MBP is now).
  2. Just refresh the 13" again. Think I'm crazy? February 13th, 2013: Apple released a refreshed 13" rMBP just 113 days after the previous update. This time around it'd be 89, but not outside the realm of possibility.
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Then the question would be why didn't they release a silent refresh late last year for the 13"? Plenty of CPUs were available at that time.
 
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(SIDEBAR: Wow, what a thread! It's fascinating to read some of the early posts/speculation. Folks have been wanting Skylake forever!)

Do you think there will be options for:
1) 32GB RAM
2) over 2TB of SSD storage?

I ask because my 2011 15" MBP has 16GB of RAM and 2.5TB of storage. Seems silly that a laptop 5 years in the future would have the same limitations!
 
Seems strange to me... people keep mentioning the i7 6770HQ in a manner that denotes a lack of availability on that chip... yet having been searching around for the last couple of days, there are a number of laptops available (without a long lead time) that have that very chip. That would lead ME to believe, that there is a very real possibility that an announcement (at the very least) on Monday, with shipments occurring in either late April or early May is feasible.
 
dtsisdead said:
Seems strange to me... people keep mentioning the i7 6770HQ in a manner that denotes a lack of availability on that chip... yet having been searching around for the last couple of days, there are a number of laptops available (without a long lead time) that have that very chip. That would lead ME to believe, that there is a very real possibility that an announcement (at the very least) on Monday, with shipments occurring in either late April or early May is feasible.
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There are no laptops available with the i7 6770HQ CPU (we don't even have benchmarks), you must be confused with i7 6700HQ that has been available since September.
 
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What is actually in a eGpu box ? is it just a controller to interface the gpu with the TB3 port and some cooling fans. 400$ for that is way to expensive, the price will surely go down with emerging competition.

Also I think one of the main reasons apple might do a redesign this year is to create a visual gap with the older models. Apple needs to make the older ones feel old visually and not just in terms a specs. Thats how they run there iPhone business.
 
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What is actually in a eGpu box ? is it just a controller to interface the gpu with the TB3 port and some cooling fans. 400$ for that is way to expensive, the price will surely go down with emerging competition.

Also I think one of the main reasons apple might do a redesign this year is to create a visual gap with the older models. Apple needs to make the older ones feel old visually and not just in terms a specs. Thats how they run there iPhone business.
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Yeah the competition will bring it way down unless it their prices are more expensive.
 
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